Magazines

[DD]

Do you read 'em? Do you save 'em? Do you have 'em stacked up to the ceiling?

 

[Minnie]

I read Southern Living and Garden and Gun and keep them. These are my only ones.

 

[potatovixen]

I used to subscribe to Radar and Blender (both music/movies/pop culture magazines) but they both stopped publication this year. I used to get Rolling Stone but just ended up throwing them away, so now all I get is Gourmet every month.

 

[Poodleone]

I don't currently have any subscriptions- I save that for when school moms ask me to buy Christmas wrap, etc around October. However, when I go on vacation, I will usually buy a Reader's Digest and something like People and definitely Soap Opera DIgest for my mindless reading fix. Then I leave them in the waiting room of the laboratory where I work.

Kind of on topic- did anyone have parents that would NOT throw away National Geographic when you were a kid? We had a good portion of the 60's and 70's to get rid of when we cleaned out my mom's house. I can remember cutting some fish pictures out of one issue for a poster in elementary school but that was allowed only after a HUGE discussion.

 

[Gidget]

Used to have a TON of MAD Magazines and Skeptical Inquirer, but now I only get Smithsonian and it was a gift.

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[gardening1970]

Southern Living and Coastal Living. And they really stack up. I think they procreate and multiply when I'm not looking.

 

[Beach Runner]

Southern Accents (BTW publication stops with the current issue -- I think in the attic I have every issue since it's been published ), Southern Living and Gourmet (used to save every issue -- now I just save the current year's issues), and Newsweek (save the current year's issue and the "New Year" issue).

I also used to save the September issue of Vogue -- they're still in the attic. I used to really be into fashion, and I thought it would be interesting to look back and see how fashion has changed over the years. I stopped subscribing when we bought the beach house -- can't wear clothes like that at the beach, and certainly not when teaching. People don't dress up like they used to (at least in my circles).

Magazines are really becoming an anachronism. Eventually they'll all go online if they exist at all, just like many newspapers. I don't need Newsweek anymore (for more reasons besides the fact that the new format is horrible). I can get all the news for free online. Even Southern Living has many pages with references to their website. Makes me wonder if they're considering going online.

That being said, there's something just so nice and tangible about flipping through a magazine and earmarking the pages. You can take a magazine to the beach, but not a laptop.

 

[BeachSiO2]

Every Saturday morning my wife and I flip through magazines for a couple of hours. It's a family tradition.

 

[scooterbug44]

I get 3-5 magazine subscriptions (Smithsonian, National Geographic, are staples, the rest are gift subscriptions that vary) and save them for when I travel.

Don't save them once I have read them, but if there is something of long term interest I rip those pages out - and then they sit on my desk in a pile for years, but they take up MUCH less space then all the magazines would.

 

[Rudyjohn]

All Things Strings, and Newsweek. I've basically given them all up now & plan on letting the subscriptions lapse. I can't sit still long enough to read anything longer than a few paragraphs every now and then. Guess I've moved to online reading now.

I only save the Strings magazine.

Oh, and I get that AARP magazine.